Posted on 08/11/2017 9:54:41 AM PDT by Maceman
Should Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell step down from the top position in Congress, Republicans will be looking for someone savvy enough to accomplish a difficult legislative to-do list and trusted by the president.
President Donald Trump has not held back in his repeated criticisms of McConnell. Trump blames him for failing to repeal Obamacare in the first six months that Republicans controlled both the Congress and the presidency.
A Senate majority leader under Trump has a difficult job of working to pass complex legislation, including Obamacare repeal, immigration reform, tax reform and a massive infrastructure spending bill, in a sharply-divided chamber with a slight majority. All without attracting the ire of the commander in chief.
Here are seven senators that could be tapped to lead the caucus in the unlikely event McConnell steps down or retires:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Karl Rove was climbing all over Trump for criticizing fellow repubs...I’m thinking, ah excuse me, @sshat, MConnell embarrassed Trump at a Rotary meeting. McConnell drew the first verbal blow. You don’t do that with Trump.
McConnell was the one who set the time table and the agenda.
In other words, more of the same. That said, they’d elect Lindsey Graham in a heartbeat. He’s everything they want in a RINO
Replacing McConnell with an empty seat would be far preferable to any of the jackasses listed, or any of the jackasses not listed.
If looking for continued FAILURE, this list should do it. Pretty nauseating, actually.
The scrawny, corrupt, pencil-neck, 98 pound Harry Reid didn't seem to have any problems. But he was a scrapper. McConnell? He just enjoys being in "the club," playing defense, and going with the [Democrat] flow.
Any blind squirrel would be fine. Or a cow’s poop on a large lawn matrix..............
Cornyn is as useless as McConnell. Another Cheap Labor Express stooge.
Thad Cochran is barely cognizant of where he is.
Lyndsey Graham is so pro-amnesty he’s daring his state’s voters to throw him out of office.
Orrin Hatch voted for Rubio’s amnesty, too
Grassley is the first one that I might actually consider
Capito is a Cheap Labor Express stooge
Don’t know enough about Barrasso to comment, he has not hit my radar as a Cheap Labor Express stooge so far.
Trump was told by one of our conservative heroes that McConnell would be his biggest problem, not the democrats.
Please! Tell me that this is really The Onion! I mean there is absolutely no one mentioned that doesn’t have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Cornyn (McConnell’s butt boy), Grassley (83), Hatch (82), Thad Cochran (76), Capito (PP supporter), Graham( a fag), et al, they are the absolute bottom of the barrel GOPe turds.
Linda must really put out...?
Alaska has higher wage costs and therefore health care premiums.
In order to win over Senator Murkowski, I suggested that a person’s subsidy be based on the average monthly premium amounts of the PPACA subsidy silver plans for 2013, 2014, and 2015 for a 50-year in the capital city of the person’s state and then adjusted for age.
My plan, version 4.8:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~briangriffin
Surprised McCain isn’t on the list. He’s deranged, dying and anti-Trump.... everything the Republican Senate dreams about.
Ted Cruz was right all along. McConnell is a LIAR.
To keep the Maine Senators happy, deal with Medicaid reform separately from individual coverage reform.
>>Replacing McConnell with an empty seat would be far preferable to any of the jackasses listed, or any of the jackasses not listed.
************************************************************True. Here PDJT is working day and night, doing his job with masterful skill and success, and these traitors just keep obstructing/delaying at every turn. I’m still trying to absorb the reality that 100% of the Senators agreed to block him from recess appointments. They are all guilty and need to be exposed more clearly for who they really are.
Must President Trump march on down there and do McTurdle’s job on top of everything else? I’m sure he could actually do this, and do it well. It’s just that, my goodness, how much of our country’s restoration must be carried out by one man (with God’s guidance)?
Hard to believe anyone 80+ would want or be considered for the job except on a temporary basis.
Someone like Mike Enzi or Mike Crapo may be the best that can be done.
Exactly right. All 5 or so named here are mush when the chips are down.
Barasso, not Cornyn, is the only one I would vet; but even he is a poisonous vacillator. I have tried to analyze this problem for myself, and find it difficult. The Senate is tough turf. Those people have to placate the cities, on the one hand, and the smaller communities, at the same time. That is the reason for the squishy Senate.
My guess, for that reason, is that a Senate newbie, put in via Tea Party sentiment. I would incline in that case toward the new gal from Iowa (center of the country), NOT Grassley, but Ernst. Best I can do. Believe me, it is slim pickins.
I wouldn't give a plug nickel for any of them. Exception might be Barrasso.
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